I’ve noticed this shift with the religious community, now instead of debating the merits of a scientific theory religious nut jobs claim things/events/etc can not be verified because no one alive can confirm that those things happened. Haha perhaps I didn’t word that very well because I’m at work but this quote should give you all you need to know…

Jorge Delarosa, a 39-year-old architect from Bridgewater, N.J., pointed to a warm 2012 without a winter and said, “I feel the change. There must be a reason.” But when it came to Earth’s beginnings 4.5 billion years ago, he has doubts simply because “I wasn’t there.”
Source: Huffington Post

That’s great, not to believe in the age of the planet because he wasn’t present at the beginning… How is this guy an architect, he has to use logic and reasoning everyday except when he deals with religion. With that line of reasoning, how can we be sure that anyone or anything existed before we were born or before the immediate generations of people around us were born?

Religion is a cancer to civilization and the sooner we shed this dead weight the better.